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4 Minute Roundup: Scoble on Twitter Lists; Time, Newsweek Hurting

Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at Twitter Lists and how they allow people to group the people they follow on Twitter. Some say they might replace RSS feed readers. Robert Scoble answers Just One Question about how Twitter Lists have changed his life. Plus, magazines are hurting once again, with Time Inc. planning big layoffs and $100 million in cost-cutting, while Newsweek saw ad sales drop 48% in the quarter.

Check it out:

Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network.

Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:

The Twittering Masses Get Lists at WSJ Digits

Hands-On with Twitter Lists at News.com

Twitter Lists Goes Live at Search Engine Land

Why I Don’t Use Google Reader Anymore at Scobleizer

World Series Game 2 – Follow Live On Twitter Lists at Huffington Post

Listorious

Time Inc. Is Expected to Eliminate More Jobs at NY Times

Bad News From the Washington Post – Ad Sales Slide Again at Media Memo

Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged – Newsweek Revels In Condé Losses at Mediaite

Added Bonus: Here’s the entire interview with Robert Scoble:

Here’s a graphical view of last week’s MediaShift survey results. The question was: “What do you think about the real-time web?”

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about the future of newsweekly magazines.

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

View Comments (3)

  • with all due respect, Mr Glaser may have had the greatest content in the world but I couldnt make it more than 15 seconds into the podcast due to his absolutely horrible read.

    nasal, dragged out final syllables, mis emphasis, awkward phrasing, all of it. impossible to listen to.

  • Really enjoyed the Scobleizer piece. I am intrigued by the argument that Twitter will negate feed readers. I like the speed and social aspect of Twitter, but feed readers offer just a little bit more content which assists me in deciding whether to dive in deeper.

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